Eight years later, multiple ROUTES, & my changing personality – NieR: Automata

So, I was playing NieR: Automata, finally starting Route B, after eight years, because I didn’t even know it existed, let alone Route C, and I quickly started to get bored to tears playing with 9S.

I honestly wanted to restart the game so badly from the begining with Goddess 2B, but my extreme hard work from eight years prior, uncovering the map and acquiring weapons would be wasted…

So, I literally searched Google trying to find out how to activate a New Game+ mode, only to find out the only option is to unlock Chapter Select after clearing Route C, like what?

Now don’t get me wrong, my first playthrough of the game with 2B, who I absolutely love, was amazing, so things should be way easier the second time or third time around right?

But… Playing with 9S has made me realize how much I’ve changed over the years. I’m playing on easy, the map is outrageously not user friendly, fast travel is locked for whatever reason at the beginning, despite it being a second playthrough, and I’m running right past enemies because it feels like a waste of time to deal with them.

Then I began slowly asking myself why am I playing this? Do I even really like video games anymore? This seems to be a trend across majority of the games I’ve touched lately…

With that in mind, I actually like playing fighting games way more, always have, and I’ve come to the realization it’s because you don’t have to run miles across a map just to see the next part of the story or tackle that next boss. You do everything in the menus, story, characters, stage, and boom in the match.

I wish more games would be structured like this, story scene, fight, story scene, fight, story scene during the fight, looking at you Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.

We get it, you have that A.I. generated world you want to show off, do that in the STORY scenes, you literally have the best story of all time, why ruin it by having the player run hundreds of miles for no reason?

They better be glad I’m not a game developer…

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